Crude in Wave 3 - Bullish Channel

Basically and continuation of previous published idea. Wave counts have been updated and the low at Wave 2 sets the lower channel. Wave 1 ended and was followed by and expanded flat Wave 2. Continued movement above the bearish downtrend channel continues to give great confidence we are seeing a trend change to bullish movement.

Friday's closing looks to have ended with an ABCDE triangle that will end in a Wave 5 on a lesser count. I'll take a snapshot of my minutes count and add to the replies.

Overall, I'm bullish. Looking to buy dips and will likely see and end to this wave in the 80's.

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Doesn't look like price is unfolding as predicted. It's setbacks like these that reminds me EW is a tool for analysis and not a predictor model. Price since 67.71 feels more corrective than motive with more 3 wave structures than 5 in my opinion. It looks like we are in a large consolidation Wyckoff consolidation pattern on a daily and will continue to monitor. First part of the Wyckoff channel is describe below on the Jan 9 chart I posted.